"The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam."

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Source : Elizabeth Knox (2014). “The Vintner's Luck”, p.187, Victoria University Press

Elizabeth Knox

#Liquid Quotes #Flight Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.”

Source : "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.
“I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.”
“I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”
“THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.”
“My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.”
“Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
“The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.261, Shambhala Publications

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